• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    — Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    — E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    — e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    — Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    — Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    — John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    — John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

    — Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    — William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
  • The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

    — Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
  • All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

    — Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"
An Inchture, (Perthshire) family to Ontario
The Runciman DNA project would like to test the theory that Alexander son of John & Susan (Donaldson) RUNCIMAN is both the father of the Alexander married to Elizabeth Boyd, and also married Isabella Dow.
Charts only show those I have researched, only descendants still with the surname RUNCIMAN, and their spouses, and usually only deceased RUNCIMAN family members.
Exceptions include direct lines down to researchers included elsewhere on the site, or for DNA project participants who have agreed to be shown in the latter project.
Should you wish to be included in your relevant chart, please contact the webmistress, using the link in the page footer.
So, in general, charts are by no means complete. Please refer further queries to the researcher(s) listed for the line.
Where there is doubt, conflicting evidence for relationships, or additional published information exists, this is usually discussed on the appropriate person's page, follow the link and make up your mind from the information and sources shown.
Wanted! line for DNA project
  • Alexander0 Runciman (circa Aug 1800 - Oct 1858)
    • Jane Hepburn (say 1805 - )
      • Alexander1 Runciman (circa 1831 - Mar 1902)
        • Elizabeth Boyd (circa 1829 - bet. 1871 - 1876)
          • William B.2 Runciman (Aug 1855 - Sep 1928)
            • Christina Scotland (circa 1854 - 1936)
              • Alexander3 Runciman (Jun 1876 - aft. 1911)
                • Elizabeth Lamb (Apr 1877 - aft. 1911)
                  • William4 Runciman (Feb 1907 - aft. 1911)
                  • Alexander4 Runciman (Sep 1909 - aft. 1911)
                  • James4 Runciman (May 1911 - aft. 1911)
              • James R. B.3 Runciman (circa 1880 - aft. 1901)
              • William B.3 Runciman (Nov 1884 - 1975)
                • Annie McAllum (Feb 1889 - 1937)
                  • William4 Runciman (Oct 1906 - Oct 1918)
                  • Dougald4 Runciman (May 1911 - aft. 1935)
                  • Alexander C.4 Runciman (circa 1917 - Oct 1992)
              • John3 Runciman (circa 1887 - aft. 1891)
              • Andrew3 Runciman (circa 1888 - aft. 1891)
          • Alexander M.2 Runciman (Oct 1857 - aft. 1901)
            • Jemima P. Paterson (circa 1858 - aft. 1901)
              • Beatrice S.3 Runciman (circa 1883 - )
              • Alexander3 Runciman (circa 1884 - )
              • James P.3 Runciman (Feb 1886 - aft. 1938)
                • Annie G. Andrew (circa 1891 - )
              • Ralph W.3 Runciman (circa 1889 - )
          • James R. B.2 Runciman (Jul 1859 - Nov 1938)
            • Helen B. Lornie (circa 1862 - Jul 1941)
              • Walter W.3 Runciman (Aug 1891 - aft. 1903)
              • James L.3 Runciman (circa 1896 - Apr 1917)
              • David B.3 Runciman (circa 1898 - aft. 1919)
        • Jane Lornie (circa 1831 - )
          • David L.2 Runciman (circa 1878 - )
    • Isabella Dow (circa 1815 - bet. 1881 - 1887)
      • Susan1 Runciman (circa Mar 1842 - )
      • Elizabeth1 Runciman (circa Jan 1844 - )
      • Peter1 Runciman (circa Feb 1846 - Jan 1936)
        • Magdalene Fraser (circa 1863 - 1940)
          • George F.2 Runciman (1887 - aft. 1935)
            • Mary Martin (circa 1914 - 1989)
          • Magdalen R.2 Runciman (circa 1890 - 1973)
          • Alexander2 Runciman (Mar 1891 - 1980)
            • Annie Reid (circa 1890 - 1963)
          • Robert S.2 Runciman (1895 - aft. 1936)
      • Isabella1 Runciman (circa Apr 1848 - )
      • Alexander1 Runciman (circa Aug 1853 - 1858)
      • James M. J.1 Runciman (Jun 1855 - aft. 1901)
      • William H.1 Runciman (1858 - 1861)
Wanted! line for DNA project